Spring 2018 University Research Foundation Awards
The Office of the Vice Provost for Research has announced awards (Conference and Seminar Support denoted by *) for the following members of the faculty for the projects listed below.
Spring 2018 University Research Foundation Awards
- Erol Akçay, Biology, SAS, Evolution of social and genomic complexity
- *Daud Ali, South Asia Studies, SAS, Money Use in Precolonial South Asia
- Montserrat Anguera, Biomedical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Influence of altered X-linked gene dosage on the microbiome during autoimmunity
- *Jaya Aysola, Office of Inclusion and Diversity, Perelman School of Medicine, Health Equity Week 2019
- *Deborah Becker, School of Nursing, PennDemic: An Interprofessional Infectious Disease Outbreak Simulation
- Paco Bravo, Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine, Somatostatin Receptor Imaging in Patients with Suspected Cardiac Sarcoidosis
- Kathleen Brown, History, SAS, Beyond Free Speech and Safe Space: Reimagining Open Expression, Inclusion and Argument
- Lily Brown, Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, Integrating Suicide and Trauma-Focused Treatment to reduce Suicide Risk
- Janis Burkhardt, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, A mouse model for X-linked moesin-associated immunodeficiency
- Marija Drndic, Physics and Astronomy, SAS, Topological insulator nanoelectronic devices: engineering surface state towards spintronics and quantum computing applications
- Roy Hamilton, Neurology, Perelman school of Medicine, Using Virtual Reality and Brain Stimulation to Detect and Characterize Spatial Neglect
- Brent Helliker, Biology, SAS, The hydraulic legacy of C4 evolution: Phylogenetic, physiological and genetic controls on water transport in C3 and C4 grasses
- *Joseph Kable, Psychology, SAS, Conference Support for the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroeconomics
- Sampath Kannan, CIS, Engineering and Applied Science, Understanding Communities and Relationships from Data
- Bomyi Lim, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Engineering and Applied Science, Characterization of Pol II elongation rate in living embryos
- Ignacio Lopez, Romance Languages, SAS, Archival Work—Galdos’ Rosalia manuscript
- *Catriona MacLeod, Germanic Languages and Literature, SAS, Romantic Prints on the Move
- Michele Margolis, Political Science, SAS, Competing identities, values, and preferences: white evangelical Christians in American politics
- Ramah McKay, History and Sociology of Science, SAS, Making an African medical market: Private clinics and transnational capital in Mozambique and India
- Marcy Norton, History, SAS, The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492
- Aurelie Ouss, Criminology, SAS, Using Feedback to Improve Performance in Criminal Justice
- Eugene Park, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, SAS, A Concise History of Korea
- *Kevin Platt, Russian and East European Studies, SAS, Your Language—My Ear 2019: Russian and American Poetry in Conversation and Translation
- *Guthrie Ramsey, Music, SAS, Sound, Gender, and the Color Line
- Janine Remillard, Graduate School of Education, Improving Novice Teachers’ Instructional Practices in Mathematics: Translating Learning from Teacher Education
- *Gareth Roberts, Linguistics, SAS, Penn Symposium on Cultural Evolution and Global Social Dynamics
- *Adam Smith, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, SAS, Script and Sound in Old Chinese
- Nancy Steinhardt, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, SAS, The Borders of Chinese Architecture
- *James Sykes, Music, SAS, Sounding the Indian Ocean: Musical Circulations in the Afro-Asiatic Seascape
- Patrick Walsh, Chemistry, SAS, New Polymerization Reactions with Organocatalysts
- Joshua Wand, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine, Positioning Entropy in Proteins for Exploitation for Drug Design
- *Michael Weisberg, Philosophy, SAS, Killing Cats to Save Finches: Perspectives on Invasive Species and Conservation Policy
- Richard Weller, Landscape Architecture, Design, Atlas for the End of the World—Atlas for the Beginning of the Anthropocene
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Originally published in the Almanac on Sept 11, 2018.